KDE / nautilus gone wild!

I recently upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I have been using KDE exclusively for my desktop. Things going pretty well until yesterday. as I went to shutdown the laptop I noticed that my desktop had change dramatically. Background picture was gone, most or the desktop ikons were gone. Remaining ikons seemd to have a Gnome look to them. Next time I rebooted it took a long time to bring up the KDE desktop and when it came up nautilus began launching repeatedly with no end in sight. Had to log out to get it to stop. This continues to happen every time I boot up with KDE, but not with Gnome or WindowMaker. Any ideas? Thanks, Duane Wilson